there are people who will say that he saved the newspaper industry and london because of the whopping revolution in one thousand nine hundred six but now it's clear that success came with a heavy price tag morality murdoch's journalist kept the ratings high by violating and exploiting the vulnerable they hacked the private voice mails of families of dead soldiers and of murdered children a century we've seen criminality and invasion of privacy on a staggering industrial scale not even the rich and powerful could escape then chancellor gordon brown's baby was splashed over the front page of the sun his illness a sick headline royal family phones were hacked the scandal even goes right to the heart of the police force senior police officers were bribed by journalists for tipoffs on sensitive investigations private lives were made public and now we've got. some hacking into gordon brown's private life you

have to you have to start wonder what else is in of course the heart of it is not just. what we call blanket these are people. information what should be private sources like medical records tax records it's taken thirty years for the worst fears about the british press to come true but come true they have murdoch may own successful newspapers in an ailing market but their papers which have lost their greatest asset the public's trust the u.k. has more c.c.t.v. cameras per person than anywhere else in the world i've counted eight just in this small car park so britain's always know big brother is watching but the question now is what's big brother watching for and more importantly who's trying to bribe him lower and it r.t. london. dover and have your say on the scandal. at r.t.

dot com the question is has rupert murdoch's sensationalistic rush for profits undermined the public's trust in british journalism here's some of what's being said well one poster believes that this has joe good the public's trust and will result in the breakup of murdoch's strong hold on both the british media and the government and another believes that modern journalism has sacrificed objectivity for the sake of sales it is also let us know your thoughts on the issue so do that by logging on to our website r t v dot com. police have made the first arrest in connection with russia's worst ever boating disaster they have detained the owner of the company that rented out the bulgarian cruiser and the person was certified it fit for sale meanwhile divers are set to conduct a final search of the vessel looking for the remaining twenty four bodies of the one hundred and thirty people believed killed in the tragedy is at the site for us

. the first two arrests have been made in the ongoing criminal investigations the first is. she has been arrested because she was the owner of the company that rented the ball daria pleasure boat for its final cruise and it's thought that she may have known about the poor condition of the ship when she made that decision to rent it the second is yaakov if a show of here's a state shipping expert and he cleared the ship as fit to sail some time ago and it's thought that he may have been negligent in making that decision they will stay in detention for around a month to be questioned and then the case will go on from there the emergencies ministry here on the volga bank and the divers that are going out to the platform above the sunken belgariad they say their final effort is going to be made now to try and recover the last twenty four bodies. from from the ship and however there

may be some complications with that they're hoping to finish sometime later today possibly around midday but they think that they've searched most of the ship now and they haven't found all of these twenty four bodies so if they're not on the ship they may be in the water around the ship a worst case scenario maybe this some of them when the ship sank people may have unfortunately drowned and their bodies being carried by the current to worst estimate up to two hundred kilometers downstream so the search area may have to be increased for them but they're hoping to finish this search so that two special ships that have come up from foreground further down the river can start the operation later on to try and raise the ball guerrier from the bottom of the volga and when they can see the ship up in the open air they can try and work out why the ship sank and why it sank so fast leading to so much try. reporting there well

we've got more on russia's worst boating accident on our website log on terra t dot com to watch the food edge of the recovery efforts and divers in the volga river and there's also an interview with a former captain of the doomed ship who says he was in no condition to sail long before the sinking. well you're watching r t live from moscow still have for you this hour. europe's struggle to keep the euro flowed takes another hit as the world's eighth largest economy wakes up to the reality it's deep in debt. and israel's prime minister has to stand up and advance of an anti boycott bill which aims to support settlers but has been fronts to democracy. russia has proposed a new step by step strategy towards iran's nuclear program the idea is just making the limited concessions to the rot of goes along with the demands of the international community the statement comes after talks between the u.s.

secretary of state hillary clinton and russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov during his visit to washington but to also touched upon the levy campaign would love drop saying russia has less disagreement on the matter was the u.s. than with some european countries but as our reports by literalists you still face certain difficulties. with regards to leave both russia and the us have the view that colonel gadhafi must step down and that the levy should be able to choose their future leader it's the path towards those aims that moscow and washington disagree on the means if you will criticizes the scope of the into the foreign intervention in libya the actions of the allied forces forces there as a violation of the u.n. mandate minister lavrov said the resolution is being wrongly interpreted as anyone can do whatever they want for a minister was also asked about why russia is blocking a u. and they should have to condemn the syrian president assad he said the attitude of

the west is exclusively about exerting pressure on one of the parties namely the syrian government and president all side of moscow sees this as sees it as the wrong attitude russia says it sends the wrong message to the syrian opposition prompting them to believe that if they were the main insistent in the situation keeps getting critical of the west. who will come to help them the way it is happening in libya mr lavrov said it's unacceptable that the opposition would resort to violence agitating peaceful protesters into engaging in armed clashes and effectively turning them into targets for the police and security forces take a listen going to deploy. diplomacy exists not to condemn and score political points diplomacy exists to solve problems and naked condemnation without proposing any solution won't lead us to any breakthrough neither in syria nor in any other place there is a good example of how we are all dealing with the situation in yemen no one's tripos into condemning anyone or adult the u.n. security council resolution supporting one or another signs everyone is there to

sign down and hold negotiations dance a responsible approach that we hope will prevail well on bilateral issues there have been some agreements and disagreements as usual but top diplomats bravely focused on agreements both pointed out the positive and constructive mode in which the cooperation between the two countries is going on many issues in the last few years russia and the us of that landmark deal on arms reduction they deepen cooperation out of ghana's then have gone forward in preparations for russia's accession into the world trade organization the obama administration is all for it and hillary clinton has once again stressed the american leadership support for russia joining the w t o also they have signed the long awaited agreement on adoption after scores of horrible incidents involving russian children mistreated by their adoptive parents in a number of cases murdered by them to stress the need for an agreement to have better oversight over how the adopted children are treated in their families and

the deal finally came through the points in vision there included bad on independent adoption adoptions will only be conducted via licensed agencies also the agreement states that all foster children from our show will retain their russian citizenship until they reach legal adulthood. that is very important as the agreement states that applicable laws from both countries will be used adoption related trials up until recently the americans did not want to hear anything about taking russian laws into account now as for disagreements america's missile defense plans is one of the most irritating issues in the relations between the two countries you could sense that both foreign minister lavrov and secretary of state clinton preferred not to go into details and talk much about disagreements but nevertheless we know that there has been discussions behind closed doors president obama has scrapped the bush administration missile defense plans but they are going ahead with a new plan foreign minister lavrov said russians need for legally binding guarantees

that the project will not threaten russia's security washington has made reassuring statements before but moscow needs to have it on paper so there is an understanding among the russians that words are good but words in a legally binding document are better but again no specific comment on that yet. reporting there for us and we're here live for you on r t twenty percent but for even more news and videos just go to our website r t dot com here's a taste of what's online right now and find out why a monument to the first man in space we were garnered will be unveiled right at the very heart of london. and it's a happy ending for an escaped boat constrictor which brought fear when it was lost russian city of leningrad long gone towards you know kong learn how to get along snake slipped away in the first place. now it was a turbulent session in the israeli parliament as a prime minister himself had to defend a new bill glowing consumer boycotts of products from settlements on occupied

palestinian territory the law imposes high fines on boycott organizers and allow settlers to sue them for compensation opponents have called it a blow to israeli democracy and freedom of speech one peace movement called go. into the high. court against a new law for more on the anti boycott law its patients were now going to live from jerusalem by he will bend society's spokes person for the shake jar solidarity movement mr benson something for being here with us in the program first off benjamin netanyahu has said that anti boycott law is perfectly in line with israeli democracy otherwise he would have backed it now tell us how does it all add up how does democracy fit together with the prohibition of civil protest. so first of all good morning and thank you for having me i think that in order to understand the proper context of this law one must understand that in one thousand nine hundred fifty seven israel conquered the vast territories that were previously jordanian

and egyptian when it conquered it on the one hand it it implied regime rule and the military rule on the palestinian occupied occupied inhabitants but on the other hand solian gradually israel began to to send its israeli jewish jewish civilians into the occupied territories to build their settlers of urban and suburban. suburban housing now all of these settlements are on occupied territory and are in our according to the international law illegal in unrecognized israelis who think that the fact that israel conquered these these territories is not only against international law but against the interest of israel fight in various modes in order to convince israel to withdraw from this there are other ways and the palestinian israeli conflict however this new law not only does not.

does not permit these these protests but prohibits any kind of court to. to boycott these. products that are manufactured in the settlements. obviously this is not only an antidemocratic law but it also shows that in a sense in a very deep sense the settlements already lost a large part of their legitimization both in the international community and in israel because that is the only that is the only reason why you need to sanction such such petitions as the boycott petitions by law well mr vance is on let's talk about you know the fragile situation there with the palestinians because this bill is seen as a large step away from the peace process was the palestinians so how will it impact the relations in your opinion. could you repeat the question i didn't hear that so good thank you how well how will this bill impact their relations with palestinians in their already fragile situation there in the region i mean it's

seen by many as big step away from a peace process so i think that it is clear for most of the international community and also for many in israel would even say the majority in israel the current regime in israel is not really interested in promoting a viable peace accord with the palestinians through many various manipulations and setting. setting impossible to be in negotiation the israeli government has managed in fact to in nearly any kind of force ability for advancing the peace process this move is not only another bash in the face. of the chances to where to reach a peace accord but also you know in a certain sense to a very strong step forward diligent always being the israeli peace that is fighting for the advancement of such peace accord. well you know what's interesting in the

wormhole the fan the bill in the high court says it borders on being unconstitutional so what are our chances in high gear. well the. interesting issue about the appeal to the high court is not necessarily the fact that this law has many chances to fall because it's unconstitutional but i think two other facts that in this in this context are very central to the debate first of all israel has no constitution for many years due to. too many correlation difficulties israel never managed to form a proper correlation and it's sixty three years of existence israel actually has no no constitution therefore the supreme court and this leads me to the next to the next considerable fact here the supreme court became the arbitrator of of many controversial laws that made in a sense the supreme court the kind of a babysitter for the parliament because the parliament members basically pass any

kind of law that they want and they know that it will reach the supreme court in a simple so the supreme court will. you know will measure it yes or no is this law legitimate according to the israeli imagine to constitution or future constitution now this fact not only deteriorates the power legitimacy of the supreme court which is viewed time and again as the defender of human rights are all are sometimes viewed as enemies in israel all right mr president but on the other hand it unfortunately we have to leave it there but thanks very much for sharing your views with us here in a program that was hellbent sassoon a spokesperson for the shaikh jostling there any moment thank you very tense here. you're watching our t.v. now the currency crisis gripping the e.u. has taken a turn for the worse as italy spurred by a string of ruinous market downturns begins to debate emergency spending cuts at

two trillion dollars the world's eighth largest economy has been struggling to remain competitive since joining the euro zone but its debt has spiraled out of control a fact overlooked by many and made the more pressing problems in the e.u. it follows a downgrade of violence debts to junk status a serious blow to the eurozone as a bailout written blog labors to prop up its weakest economies u.k.i.p. paul natal told r.t. the latest developments prove the single currency union is simply not working. this was always about politics it was not about economics the idea that you could have economies in the mediterranean in line with economies like germany fast growing economies like germany was never going to work the only way to get out of this mess is for those countries to go back home to their national potencies to devalue to get growth moving. into exports going in at the moment they come to use their debt because they couldn't see these are controlled by frankfurt they're controlled by the european central bank they're not controlled by athens or lisburn even though

we see the people out on the streets in athens and i just wonder how long it will be before the people are also in the streets in rome and in lisbon until this thing is contagious this thing will move right across the continent specifically in the mediterranean and the bigger issue you know facing the autopia union is this really really is the third largest economy in the eurozone this place largest economy in the world i think the euro zone can actually cope with greece and portugal the smaller economies but if italy goes the whole thing could cave in because if italy goes it's all these economies intertwined with spain's kind of spain and italy go then we are in serious trouble the euro is inextricably to the whole project and it's going to the european union if the eurozone goes quite frankly you can see this whole thing breaking go up but that is why they're so desperate to keep it that's why this was desperate to say that we in the u.k. are fed up with bailouts are the only way for these countries to survive is to break out of this prison which is the auto zone. now is take a look at some other stories from around the world gunfire as again in iraq

pakistan's largest city of karachi as the authorities there strive to contain an al break of violence that's claimed at least ninety three lives in just five days unrest is not uncommon in the port city with a population of eighteen million and as often provoked by ethnic religious or political tension the latest outburst was sparked by the decision of the city's most powerful political party to leave the federal ruling coalition and join the opposition. twenty seven day prison uprising in venezuela has ended after the national guard negotiated control of the facility back from inmates the standoff at the jail began after thousands of troops stormed the prison and unit and a weapons search days after a bloody right the action sparked gunfight between troops and inmates leaving one prisoner and two soldiers dead as well as twenty wounded a twitter message president is congratulated authorities for bringing an end to the standoff. at least seventeen people were killed and over

a hundred injured after three coordinated bombings hit india's city of mumbai the blasts happened during the rush hour in the country's busy financial center police suspect these laws group indian mujahideen as being as behind the explosions that's the worst terror attack in the country since the two thousand and eight mumbai street town from help a weekly magazine shared his opinion on who he believes is responsible. well you know what they should do we will go on go more do a lot of good indian muslim you are being formed because of this group. this group basically have logical and financial support or because of the border but the i.s.i. has been known to newsgroup i do it for a few legal support from a baby but that may have been a vision which will be hey you can do six eleven let's get it done by has been no chewing this job or you didn't get

a deal the last seventy two years there have been waiting list to go into mentions of they have been created in the. secret of the high doses. and allowed them to come back into india and then the remaining coach told all the different. bosses back in pakistan and get him been killed by them and the plan to go to strike he got a mission may be in pakistan. time now for a business update with dmitri don't go away. thanks very much as burbank says it's ready to declare war on russia's cash driven society once companies and people to switch to electronic payment methods the bank claims the high portion of cash in the economy is halting growth causing the country to lose up to one point one percent of its gross domestic product but banks are just paying also reason pensions into bank accounts instead of handing over

ruble bills that also wants the government of a tax incentives for non-cash payments. ratings agencies such as standard and poor's and moody's have become the subject of vicious attacks from politicians across europe the agency's claim to give an independent assessment of the credit worthiness of countries but they've been blamed for helping cause a crisis by stirring up the alarm however some analysts suggest this means they're doing a good job. the ratings agencies quite justifiably came in for a lot of criticism during the global financial crisis they were accused of being overoptimistic they were taking some fairly generous assumptions about ability to repay there were sometimes overlooking some fairly fatal flaws in some derivative structures and it's fair to say i think most reasonable people would agree that perhaps the ratings agencies did contribute to the global financial crisis however i think there's been a notable improvement in standards over the course of the last two or three years

and the fact that the ratings agencies now are actually getting so much criticism from european finance ministers probably suggest they're doing the job rather well . to the markets now we start with commodity. trading near four day highs are signs of a rise in crude demand and u.s. countered speculation of the world's biggest consumer of crude may face a credit downgrade by moody's now the agency put the us under review for a rating downgrade as talks to raise its fourteen point three trillion dollar debt limit have stalled for light sweet and brant are declining this but the decline is not significant across asian markets trading in the red also slightly same thing here moody's downgrading potentially u.s. credit rating as a factor chilling at best sentiment stocks are pressured as an increase in risk aversion is pushed the u.s.

dollar below the seventy nine. level exporters are the biggest losers there for in ten days dropping over one half percent at the close to see one percent and hong kong financials are coming under pressure bank of china is down by one point nine percent rather and china construction bank one and a half percent is the opening picture in russia fortunately we can bring you the my six figure this out of the r.t.s. is down point three percent let's. take a look at some of the main drags on the my sex actually let me tell you manually just what the figure is down point six percent this hour gazprom and lukoil are the main losers the other down one percent as well as declining financials d.t.b. and also down point eight percent telecoms giant growth telecom is keeping the high volatile trading the south has seen the past couple of months it's also down one percent. in the south he will be back in fifty minutes time with an update i'll see

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welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow these are the top stories death toll from russia's pleasure cruiser disaster rises to one hundred seven people as divers make a final attempt to find those still missing while police make their first arrest attaining the owner of the company that ran it out of bulgaria and the person who certified it safe to sale. in washington a talks between russia's foreign minister and the u.s. secretary of state sergey lavrov proposes a new step by step strategy towards iran that may bring to rome back in the yoshi table over its nuclear program. and rupert murdoch's media empire abandons its bid to take over britain's largest satellite broadcaster as a frenzy over newspaper hacking consumers politicians and police. as the death

plague sweeping the e.u. spreads to italy artie's max kaiser and state herbert discuss whether the country's gold reserves might be making it a bigger target the kaiser report is up next. guys are this is the kaiser and for gold hitting new highs and euros and british pounds u.s. dollars all across the world people want gold and out o. the currency matrix to see her tell me more well max the entire world's financial system is once again crumbling and part of the reason of course is the oligarchies that rule our world and have not faced justice for that because they are part of the all of our key there's no differentiation between the heads of these banks and the heads of the government but also importantly the other

important ingredient is propaganda and how propaganda confuses the populations in the west half of us social program re sybian believe they have not used a government social program so this is from the united states and if you look at this chart of the top four demonstrating the most ignorance of being receptive audience of government welfare three out of four of them regard our referring to higher education that that is the five twenty nine or coverdell which sixty four point three percent of people who receive this government funding don't even know they're receiving taxpayer financed help home mortgage interest deduction hope or lifetime learning tax credit and student loans are also the people who receive this government assistance are completely ignorant of receiving government help and trying to sort of propagandists in other words all day long and all the.